Posted 2 years ago on Oct. 5, 2012, 2:05 a.m. EST by scottyperey
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Hi everyone, I just wrote this for our One Year Occupy Eugene Anniversary Party March next week (Mon. Oct. 15, starting at the Park Blocks, time TBA, for anyone in the area...)

Here's the lyrics, feel free to sing along, to the tune of "Puttin' On The Ritz" :)

If you're sick of one-percenter types in league with government official cranks
We're breaking up the banks!

If you're tired of seeing all of your tax dollars go to fighter jets and tanks
We're breaking up the banks!

Don't tell us that they're too big to fail
Criminals like them should be in jail
("End of sale!")

We saved J.P Morgan Chase, slap in the face is all we get by way of thanks
We're breaking up the banks!

Don't believe them when they say
They worked hard to get that way
We don't want their charity
We're demanding parity
Access to education
Health care for all the nation
Roofs to keep us warm
And campaign finance reform!

(solo)

Don't give us more tax breaks for the wealthy
Let's make sure our working class is healthy
("Ring the belfry!")

President Obama we're waiting for you to show some teeth, break with your ranks
Breaking up the banks

There's no end to what they'll do
Squeezing money out of you
They'd be all that they can be
On the backs of you and me
Fuck that, the game is changing
Now that we're rearranging
Secret backdoor rules
For obedient fools

Come let's lend a hand to all help Occupy throughout the land, even Tom Hanks
We're breaking up the banks!
We're breaking up the banks!
We're breaking up the banks!

4 Comments

Thanks Zen Dog... I wondered about the president line too. I wasn't so concerned with my fellow anarchists' reactions but more about my more moderate Democrat comrades getting their feathers ruffled :) Though I really would like to know how folks can possibly justify appointments like Geithner and the like being representative of a purported policy of "change."